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To: SaveFerris

If you have a window, you can continue some stuff indoors.

I dug up a pepper plant that hubby had, dumped it into a pot and brought it indoors. It produced pepper plants all winter. I was in front of a Western facing patio door, and I turned on the grow light for 2 hrs after the sun went down.

Same for the tomatoes. I sliced off the branches of every tomato plant that had tomatoes or flowers. Stripped off the bottom leaves, and stuck them into a pot about the height of a 5 gallon bucket. Most of them developed roots, and some even reflowered and grew tomatoes all winter.

I kept a basil plant alive in a 6 inch pot for a little over 5 years, before pitching it - it looked a bit like a bonsai. LOL


79 posted on 10/07/2016 4:44:21 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes

We’ve had some wonderful lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, basil and cilantro. We just don’t get enough light or heat to overwinter sucessfully here in Massachusetts, so I am going to put everything to bed for the season. I will miss our gardens, but look forward to next spring. :)

I hope that some of our friends in southern states share some of their pictures and experiences with us during these cold new england months.


80 posted on 10/07/2016 4:50:24 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: greeneyes

I don’t know if the basils will survive at all - three of them starting stacking flower-looking things on top - not like the leaves before - gotta admit I stripped those because they weren’t turning into leaves. Maybe that was bad. Well, not looking like they’ll make it.

Not much to say for the other basil plants - the leaves are getting dark spots, often the tips of the leaves - crushed eggshells and vegetable plant food in the soil, too.

The pepper plants and most of the tomato plants are healthy - lot of young tomato plants I’ll probably not try to save but there’s a few that might be worth it.

Hoping to bring inside 3-4 pepper plants and keep them going. Just dunno.


88 posted on 10/07/2016 8:10:06 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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